Victoria police and border officials have intercepted a shipment of 1.45 kilograms of fentanyl bound for Victoria from China, but there are concerns the drug bust only accounts for a small amount of the deadly opioid on B.C. streets.

The Canada Border Services Agency intercepted the large shipment of fentanyl in mid-October, Victoria Police said.

The package was destined for a Victoria address, but the investigation then led to a home in nearby Saanich, B.C., where more drugs were found — including cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine and 6,052 individual doses of a heroin/fentanyl mixture.

"I can say almost to a certainty that no two amounts of fentanyl will be the same in all 6,000 doses and that is of course what makes it incredibly dangerous," said Staff Sgt. Conor King with the Victoria Police.

Officers estimate the fentanyl shipment that was intercepted was worth about $400,000 on the street. But all of the drugs involved in the bust had a combined total value of $1.2 million.

'Far too common'

Investigators believe the entire cache of drugs was destined for distribution in Greater Victoria communities.